Micheline Bernardini modeling Réard’s bikini at the Piscine Molitor. It was small enough to fit into a 2 by 2 inches (51 by 51 mm) box like the one she is holding. July 5, 1946.

It was 70 years ago that the first bikini was born using four triangular pieces of cloth and string. Happy birthday bikini! The cloth was placed on a model’s ———- writer couldn’t think of best words to use. My goodness has it been this long. We were in the south seas with our grand kids and their parents and were driven to a glorious sandy beach with the blue ocean moving gently in the background. It was then that the grandkids started to point and laugh or was that the other way ’round? We had been taken to a nude beach, a snow fence down to the water separated nudes from partially clothed (if thongs worn by 350 pound men were fashionable and legal).

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